Little Things at Training Camp

In Training by Brock Bourgase

“Homer Goes to College”

Homer made a bookshelf out of four planks and six cinder blocks:

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Marge: Homer, we have a perfectly good bookcase.

Homer: Yeah, but this is what they’re doing on campus. Besides, it isn’t costing us: I swiped the cinderblocks from a construction site.

Meanwhile, at the construction site:

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Worker: Sir, six cinderblocks are missing.

Boss: There’ll be no hospital, then. I’ll tell the children.
Neither passing nor cutting are what they used to be and motion offences are suffering as a result. But there’s a nice bookcase next to the bench by the pick-up court.

In the N.B.A.

During training camp practice:

Player: I don’t feel like closing out hard in this drill. We talkin’ about practice.

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After a dribble drive, defensive rotation and a kick out:

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Then after a swing and an extra pass:

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Defenders are thinking:

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So, don’t be like Homer and close out.